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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1950

1,356 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 68

National Air Safety Council

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 2

QUIRINDI, Monday.—Ald. Hector Gowing, who was asked by the Quirindi Municipal Council to report on a request by the…

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Department's Immediate Respite® to Mayor's Appeal Dunolly Bridge Threat Examined

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 2

Friday's urgent telegrams from the Mayor of Singleton (Alderman John McGrogan) regarding the serious threat to Dunolly Bridge caused by crumbling river banks in the immediate vicinity of…

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Singleton's Worst Flood Sufferers Jerry's Plains and Doyle's Creek Are Still Cut Off Nightmare Roads and Broken Bridges Challenge to Shire and State

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 1

About 400 people living at Jerry's Plains and Doyle's Creek are still cut off, their bridges and causeways under water or destroyed by the recent floods and heavy rain. Unless urgent and exceptional measures are taken NOW these people are faced…

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City Council Engineer

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 5

On Saturday next Maitland City Council will call applications for the position of engineer…

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Shire Council Got It

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 3

SINGLETON, Wed.—Referring to criticism levelled against the hospital board by the Chamber of Commerce recently, Cr. A…

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Shire Council Seeks Army Help

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 3

Lower Hunter Shire Council is to send a telegram to the Federal member, Mr. A Fairball, MHR, asking him to make…

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Council Engineer Resigns

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 2

Mr. J. Brand, engineer to Maitland City Council, has accepted a position With Weddin Shire Council, with headquarters at Grenfell…

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Defence Council Meeting

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.—The Defence Council is meeting in Canberra today to discuss the use of the Australian armed forces in Korea and…

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Council Can Compel Control of Bulls

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 1

Councils are empowered under, the Local Government Act to control and regulate the keeping of animals, and, in the public interest, may require…

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Milk Zone Council Has Registered with Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 2

A claim that the Australian Primary Producers' Union was the only organisation of primary producers entitled to register with the…

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Estimate On Shire Roads Damaged

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 6

The engineer of Lower Hunter Shire Council (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) is to prepare an estimate, as soon as he can make a survey…

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Security Council to Meet To-morrow

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 7

LAKE SUCCESS, July 6.— The United Nations security security council will meet at 3 p.m. G.M.T. to-morrow to…

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Move to Aid Milk Suppliers Dairymen’s Council to Press for Assistance

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 6

New South Wales Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council officials from Sydney are putting forward two suggestions for assisting flood-stricken dairymen. Both seek to provide milk suppliers with an income…

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Shire Seeks Aid Of Troops

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 7

Kearsley Shire Council is seeking the aid of troops to clear roads of silt in that part of the shire which is close to Maitland…

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Around the Council Table

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

Representatives of all miners' lodges, business men and other organisations interested will be invited to attend a conference to…

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"Examination for Shire Councillors." Cr. Henderson's Suggestion

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 4

At the meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council last week, Cr. J. A. Henderson expressed the View that in order to ensure that shire councillors…

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Council Tools Unfit For Use On Bridge Work Union Official's Allegation

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 1

According to the Secretary of the Cessnock branch of the Municipal Employees' Union (Mr. R. Henderson) work on bridges in…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 7th JULY, 1950. News From the Council Meeting Business at Wednesday's Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

The fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Wednesday, when there were present Aldermen E. C. Humphries (Mayor),…

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Aldermen Agree to Be Brief

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 3

Newcastle City Council briefly and unanimously decided on Tuesday night that speeches must be brief. It adopted a motion by Ald. Norris,…

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Should the Aldermen Say a Prayer?

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 2

Junee Aldermen rejected a proposal that they open their meetings with a short prayer. The matter inspired "The Presbyterian Bloke" to send…

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